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For middle-aged skin, the oil cleansing method is a game changer. It sounds icky, it feels wrong, but then your skin evens out and you just GLOW. Try it for a week and see how much better it works than slathering stuff on the dry top layer while the lower levels are over-producing oil to try to even out. Read more

I am so very sorry for your loss. Read more

She was 20 months older, and everything she said to me just made perfect sense. But they didn't look feathered. Not at all. Read more

Third grade, the day before class pictures, my sister cut my bangs on a slant from eyebrow level to hairline "so they will always look feathered." Read more

I would watch a reality show called Nun Moms. I would watch every single blessed second. Make this happen, TLC, and I'll forgive and forget that whole Honey BooBoo mess. Read more

Yes, and they were all proud to have worked for Starr, but distanced themselves from the Starr Report. Read more

I had a classmate who stopped speaking after he was in an accident and lost part of his foot. Just never spoke again in class, but had close friends and played football and was a really sweet guy. One day a girl walked over and asked him out, and he nodded yes, and somehow he broke through his shyness and started… Read more

You can substitute almost any bland nut, but the real secret is to toast them lightly first. The toastiness really comes through in the end flavor. Read more

I dated a Republican who worked for Kenneth Starr. Whenever I met one of his former co-workers, I would ask what part of the Starr Report they authored—the cigar story? the blue dress stain story? the phone sex excerpts? Read more

But her mother is absolutely horrified. Read more

At least we know she didn't make the whole thing up. All journalists should get fact-checked by a grand jury and a forensics team. Read more

That was my reaction to learning that an actress still had control over her facial muscles. Read more

She looks like a Dr Seuss character. She just needs a big star on her belly. Read more

That is where all the good sense already leaked out of her head. Read more

I was going to post about how Amazing Amy would not be impressed by her fashion choice, but now I am in awe of her daring. "You want to talk about my post-pregnancy body? Here it is. Talk all you want, I'll be at the bar." Read more

After all those months smushed in together, I think the middle one wants his space. Read more

If you haven't yet, read David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. It's not an easy read, but it got me to understand where I stood when I was engaged to an alcoholic. I hope you find a way to process everything you are feeling. Read more

Has she found her toes yet? She looks like she's pretty impressed with her hands, but toes are tasty. Read more

We should airlift in good old American cheese. That plastic crap will break their spirits and clog their bowels, bringing the Evil Empire to its knees. BAA-HAW-HAW. Read more

Midwesternman and I were together for over eight years before we married, and I adopted two children during that time. We had our wedding, then he immediately adopted the kids who had always called him Dad. So we had kids at our wedding. Kids, a magician, a face painter, and a room where the kids could hang out with… Read more